Microsoft Azure has a ton of features and resources to use, which enable you to do just about anything from the computational aspect. However, since you pay for the usage of all these resources, you need to have an efficient cost estimation and monitoring policy in place, in order not…
Enabling auditing in Azure SQL Database is a very good idea, since it allows you get alerts on a variety of actions and behaviors. Since data is the most valuable asset in any organization, it is always a good idea, if not a necessity, not only having your database servers…
Azure Data Lake Analytics, is a powerful on-demand analytics job service on Microsoft Azure. By reading this article, you can learn Azure Data Analytics by Example. The Example Since this is an introductory article on Azure Data Lake Analytics, the example that will be presented, will be a simple one…
We continue our article series dedicated Microsoft Azure. In previous articles, we’ve talked about Azure SQL Database, SQL Server on Azure VMs, Azure Advisor, etc. In this article, we will talk about what Azure Cosmos DB is, as well as see a simple step by step example on how to…
In previous articles, we’ve talked about how you can create your first database in Azure SQL Database, how you can create an Azure SQL Server virtual machine, as well as how to backup a SQL Server database from on-premises to Azure Storage. In this article, we will discuss about what…
In Microsoft Azure, there are two main options for SQL Server services. The first option is Azure SQL Database (PaaS). The second option in SQL Server on Azure (laaS). In a previous article, I explained how you can create a SQL Server instance and database on Azure SQL Database. In…
In a previous article, we discussed how you can create your first database on Azure SQL Database. In this article, we are going to see, how to backup a SQL Server database from on-premises to Azure blob storage. Moreover, we will see how we can restore a database on-premises, based…
Microsoft Azure SQL Database is a fully managed cloud database service, provided as part of Microsoft Azure. That means, that via the Microsoft Azure Portal, among other, you can easily create database servers, and thus host your databases. Moreover, you can still continue to use the same SQL tools you…
JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation and it is widely used for data representation in the data services world. With built-In JSON support in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database, you can format query results as JSON by adding the “FOR JSON” clause to a SELECT statement in SQL Server…